Hi guys,
Javascript seems to be everyone's little dirty secret. Everyone uses, most people don't like it. Some (like me) dislike it for no other reason than being another language that I have to use. Some others dislike it for being named Javasomething (which is indeed something very strange). Yet others dislike it because it's a hell of a language to work with, mainly because it breaks the usual development cycle... it's hard to debug, trace, or otherwise analyze because it runs inside the browser. Most of the times, Javascript can't stand on its own legs; it requires other 'real' languages, such as Python or Java (or even PHP!) for something to be done. To top it all, there's the DOM, incompatibilities, you name it. Once you understand that - Javascript may be tolerated, but (almost) never loved - it's easy to understand why there are so little movement in the OS camp involving Javascript libraries. I mean, the amount of quality & well documented JS libraries is ridiculous if compared to the relative importance of the language for the industry. The lack of real communities of developers is also telling. For all the reasons above, I can't see it changing anytime soon. Perhaps if we had better support in some browser -- and Firefox is the perfect candidate here -- to improve the development experience. So far, it's been a long trip into a U2-class sub with the lights turned off. -- Carlos Ribeiro Consultoria em Projetos blog: http://rascunhosrotos.blogspot.com blog: http://pythonnotes.blogspot.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com